Sean Rameswaram

It's two days later now, and I didn't, but my tummy did feel a little funny that Memorial Day night, if I'm being completely honest.

But as I said, I got some lactose issues, so it's still oat oil for me.

When we're back on Today Explained, we're going to hear about the movement raw milks have in not just in Glen Isle, Maryland, but across the country.

I guess if you've hung around on either side of the ideological spectrum for the past decade or two, you've probably heard someone talking about raw milk.

For me, I've heard lefty, crunchy people talking about raw milk personally.

But raw milk is having a moment right now in these United States.

We are not united on raw milk.

What is going on with raw milk?

I bought and drank some pet food raw milk yesterday, Anna.

That's right.

I had to go to Maryland to do it, though.

Yeah.

Remind us why we decided to pasteurize our milk or what the benefits were.

and important in every diet.

Let's go back to middle school for a quick refresher on pasteurization.

It's a centuries-old process that heats up milk to kill off bacteria like salmonella, listeria, or E. coli, then cools it back down.

OK, so there are some clear risks here before pasteurization came around.

And then they were saying basically pasteurize your milk, warm it up a little bit and we will keep more kids alive.

Yeah.

And then since that, you know, medical breakthrough, basically, we've been trying to dial it back.